Any time you add a domain as hosted in some account, you usually set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that particular provider. On their end, 3 records are set up automatically right after the domain name is added - one A record and two MX records. The former is a numeric address, or IP address, that “tells” the domain where its site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they show the server that deals with the emails for that specific domain address. The website and the email hosting are generally perceived as one thing, when they're in reality two different services. Having separate records for them will allow you to have them with different providers if you would like. As an illustration, some new service provider might have excellent uptime for your site, but you may not want to switch your e-mail messages from your current host and by employing an A record to point the domain name to the first and MX records to have the emails with the second, you could get the best of both companies. These records are checked when you want to open a website or send an e-mail - in any case, the provider whose name servers are used for the domain address is going to be contacted to retrieve the A and MX records and if you have set records different from their own, the correct web/mail server will then be contacted and you'll see the needed site or your e-mail is going to be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Website Hosting

If you have a Linux cloud website hosting from us, you will be able to view, set up and change any A or MX record for your domain names. As long as a given domain name has our Name Servers, you are going to be able to to change specific records using our Hepsia hosting CP and have your website or emails pointed to another provider if you wish to use only one of our services. Our innovative tool will allow you to have a domain name hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted someplace else by modifying only its A record - this will not affect the main domain the slightest bit. If you choose to use the email services of a different service provider and they want you to create more than two MX records, you can easily do it with simply a couple of clicks through the DNS Records section of your Control Panel. Also you can set different latency for each MX record i.e. which one will have priority.